Claire is a paramedic, a harm reductionist and a graduate research assistant and PhD student in translational science at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as an MS student in public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She studies drug-checking implementation and the composition of the illicit drug supply.
On April 21, the first day of the 14th annual Rx and Illicit Drug Summit, organizers announced a surprise presenter…
If you’ve ever seen someone talk about “new meth” online, they were probably describing how it explained some aspect of…
In 1974, scientists at the University of Chicago immunized a rhesus monkey against morphine. After training the monkey to self-administer…
On November 5, at the Astroworld festival in Houston, at least eight people were killed in what appeared, from multiple…
In the summer of 2016, the synthetic cannabinoid "K2" burst into the drug landscape in Austin, where I was working…
Once as a paramedic student, I accidentally sprayed fentanyl in my face. It was my first time administering the medication,…
A recent Washington Post piece on the ever-worsening increase in drug poisoning deaths has reanimated angst over the supposed issue…
In elementary school, my best friend Celina wanted to be a doctor when she grew up. She loved science, gave…